Greenberry, Oregon

Greenberry is an unincorporated community in Benton County, Oregon, United States.[1] It is located on Oregon Route 99W about 8 miles south of Corvallis.[2]

The historic Willamette Grange on Greenberry Road.

Greenberry was a station on the Westside line of the Southern Pacific Railroad (now owned by Portland and Western) named for Green Berry Smith, a pioneer of 1845 who came with the Meek party and settled in Benton County in 1846.[3] He lived for a time on a farm in the area that bears his name.[3] Smith was usually called Greenberry despite his two given names.[3] Nearby Smith Hill is also named for him.[3] Smith was pro-slavery and involved in stealing land and property from Oregon’s earliest known black pioneer, Letitia Carson.

References
  1. "Greenberry". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. November 28, 1980. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
  2. Oregon Atlas & Gazetteer (7th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2008. pp. 33, 39. ISBN 0-89933-347-8.
  3. McArthur, Lewis A.; McArthur, Lewis L. (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. pp. 428, 888–889. ISBN 978-0875952772.


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